A pattern for building personal knowledge bases using LLMs.

This is an idea file, it is designed to be copy pasted to your own LLM Agent (e.g. OpenAI Codex, Claude Code, OpenCode / Pi, or etc.). Its goal is to communicate the high level idea, but your agent will build out the specifics in collaboration with you.

Most people's experience with LLMs and documents looks like RAG: you upload a collection of files, the LLM retrieves relevant chunks at query time, and generates an answer. This works, but the LLM is rediscovering knowledge from scratch on every question. There's no accumulation. Ask a subtle question that requires synthesizing five documents, and the LLM has to find and piece together the relevant fragments every time. Nothing is built up. NotebookLM, ChatGPT file uploads, and most RAG systems work this way.

See: NSSM - the Non-Sucking Service Manager

• Create a new service
• List parameters for a service
• Set a parameter for a service
• Parameter list

A step-by-step guide to installing and configuring Claude Code on macOS, the way I use it. This isn't meant to be the definitive reference -- it's just my personal setup that's been working well for me. Things change fast, so if something looks off, check the official docs or let me know.

1. Install Claude Code
2. Install GitHub CLI (gh)

Prompts to recreate each piece of the OpenClaw system. Use these with any AI coding assistant.

1. Personal CRM "Build a personal CRM that automatically scans my Gmail and Google Calendar to discover contacts from the past year. Store them in a SQLite database with vector embeddings so I can query in natural language ('who do I know at NVIDIA?' or 'who haven't I talked to in a while?'). Auto-filter noise senders like marketing emails and newsletters. Build profiles for each contact with their company, role, how I know them, and our interaction history. Add relationship health scores that flag stale relationships, follow-up reminders I can create, snooze, or mark done, and duplicate contact detection with merge suggestions. Link relevant documents from Box to contacts so when I look up a person, I also see related docs."

2. Meeting Action Items (Fathom)